Using Online Publishing in a Collaborative Poetry Project - Resources and Notes: Presenter - Steph Kantz


skantz@cysd.k12.pa.us
11th grade English at Central York
block schedule

Project Files



Sample Poem Recording:


Links:
Common Themes in Literature
Poetry Out Loud-Performance Criteria
Poetry Out Loud-Sample Poetry Performances
Poetry180-How to Read a Poem Aloud
Poetry Writer's Workshop
Student Publication 1
Student Publication 2
Mixbook.com

Lulu.com - free service - easy to use
$7 each
free download
upload in PDF format
turn around = 2 weeks

to start
- read published work
- Poetry Moodle
- create 3 and publish them to a forum
- review 3, mix it up - not just friends. (one initial up the alphabet, down - 12 up and down)
- choose what they will publish
- consistency was an issue - created a checklist - students self check their work - real life
- there will be a variety of abilities that will be evident - they're all published - no separation of level
- allowed to be anonymous first year, second year - pushed taking ownership

Not just writing poetry, how to read, perform, analyzing, compete in Poetry Out Loud

How she is doing it...
collab poetry time middle of march
week before talk about poetry devices
benchmarks are set
getting the book complete was about 2 weeks

8 themes of poetry
individual in nature, in society, relation to the gods
Human relations, growth and initiation, time